ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,272,757, issued on April 8, was assigned to Maxeon Solar Pte. Ltd. (Singapore).
"UV-curing of light receiving surfaces of solar cells" was invented by Yu-Chen Shen (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Perine Jaffrenou (Mountain View, Calif.), Gilles Olav Tanguy Sylvain Poulain (Palaiseau, France), Michael C. Johnson (Alameda, Calif.) and Seung Bum Rim (Palo Alto, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods of fabricating solar cells using UV-curing of light-receiving surfaces of the solar cells, and the resulting solar cells, are described herein. In an example, a method of fabricating a solar cell includes forming a passivating dielectric layer on a ...